ppearance in Paris.
Silvio Pellico's Francesca da Rimini --embodying that sweet, sad story which readers of English poetry have learned by heart in the tenderly musical and delicately colored poem of Leigh Hunt — was the opening piece in this important season.
Ristori played Francesca. It is a character that reveals her sweetness more than her strength; but her personation of it was a perfect success.
Seven nights afterwards she played Myrrha. All Paris was at her feet.
Ristori, wrote Jules Janin, then the representative dramatic critic she is tragedy itself; she is comedy; she is the drama.
Our language is too poor, said Lamartine, to express the worth of that woman.
Her first season in Paris extended to the 10th of September.
At its close she had given three representations of Francesca, seventeen of Myrrha, twenty-two of Mary Stuart, and seven of Pia da Tolomei; and she had earned half a million francs.
More than that — she had conquered the capital.
All the intellect and
in the Downing Letters, 25; crushes the bank of the United States, 50.
James, Henry, the elder, his character and culture, 323, 324; his views on immortality, 325; Swedenborgian tendencies, 326; at Newport, 402.
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna Brownell Murphy), visits New York: her books and ability, 40; private history and appearance, 41; Mrs. Howe's acquaintance with her, 41, 42; describes Canada: later books by, 42.
Janauschek, Madame, visited by Dr. Hedge and Mrs. Howe in Boston, 299.
Janin, Jules, French critic, friend of Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel, 68.
Johnson, Samuel, joint editor of Hymns of the Spirit, 293.
Johnston, William P., president of Tulane University, 399.
Julian, George W., attends Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington, 309.
Kant, Immanuel, his transcendental philosophy, 146; his Critique of Pure Reason, 212; influence on Mrs. Howe, 310.
Kemble, Fanny, story of, 131, 132. Kenilworth, Scott's novel of, play founded on, 57.
Kenyon, John, his dinner for th
0; development of, 124; criticism of, 125, 126; turgid rhetoric of, 128.
India, 215.
Indians, 18, 79, 129,132; Longfellow's plea for, 21; Longfellow plans poem about, 207, 208.
Innsbruck, 223.
Interlaken, 8.
Irving, Washington, 7, 18, 46, 68, 80, 89, 132, 133, 249; Longfellow imitates, 26, 27; speaks of Longfellow, 50; his Sketch Book compared with Longfellow's Outre-Mer, 69-71.
Italy, 33, 50, 55, 65, 96, 142, 223.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., 146.
James, G. P. R., 237.
Janin, Jules, 161.
Jefferson, Thomas, 6.
Jewett, Sarah O., 198.
Johnson, Eastman, 272.
Jones, J. A., 23.
Jones, Sir, William, 43; his Letters, 42.
Joubert, J., his Pensees, quoted, 235.
Keats, John, 280.
Kemble, Mrs., 200.
Kent, Duke of, 118.
Khayyam, Omar, 282.
Kiel, 108.
Kingsley, Rev., Charles, 237.
Knickerbocker, the, 140.
Korner, Charles Theodore, 64.
Kossuth, Louis, 173.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 52.
Lamartine, Alphonse M. L. de, 161.
Lawrence, Sir, Thomas, 207.
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